While millions of viewers around the world praised the hot mom’s vocals, her spectacular rendition of the national anthem was actually pre-recorded. *gasp*

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Days prior to her performance, Beyonce shared photos of her “practicing” the song with the Marine Corp Band, however according to TheTimes, Queen B made a last minute decision to lip sync the song to a pre-recorded track.

A spokeswoman for the Marine Corp Band Kristen DuBois said it was standard procedure to record a backing track and Beyoncé decided shortly before her performance to rely on the studio version rather than risk singing it live on the Capitol.

There’s nothing funnier than to see an average singer hold the mic like she is blowing,I’m like bish please…

Tae Shanae

LMAO

It’s her business

"I’m truly sick of seeing this yodeling bish…"

Lol. So glad you said this.

shad

lol

Lady A

I think you may need 2 check ur facts ATLien/Michelle because the Marine band has since backtracked on this statement….what the article said was that the BAND’S portion of the song was pre-recorded as Beyonce did not have time 2 rehearse with the Marine band….

(Here’s excerpts from an original article 2 help you out):

On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Marine Band told news outlets that Beyonce had lip synced at President Barack Obama’s inauguration
…….But by late afternoon, the Marine Corps backed off that statement…..Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Gregory Wolf said that because there was no opportunity for Beyonce to rehearse with the Marine Band, it was determined that a live performance by the band was ill advised. Instead they used a pre-recorded track for the band’s portion of the song…….

"Regarding Ms. Knowles-Carter’s vocal performance," Wolf’s statement continued, "no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded."

Stop the Beyonce hate…..just stop…I’m so tired of jealous ass women trying 2 h8te on Beyonce…that kind of envy can’t feel good so just let it go…..

Jackie

And I call bs on this…military affiliated for 24yrs….never is the marines band honor guard not on point…backtracked to make her look better

Jackie

Is that not a pic of bey and members of the band above???? For anyone to say our military bands don’t show up and show out is bullshit…just say she was’t up to the job

Lady A

@ Jackie…What-the fuck-ever…if you have been "affiliated" with the military for 24 yrs then you know that in the past, they have on occassion, used pre-recorded music for performances as instruments sometimes tend 2 malfunction in cold temperatures…so u can go grasp 4 straws somewhere else on that one sweetie…..like I said "H8TR"…..

Shawnee

nobody said anything about them not being on point. they said they didn’t have the time to rehearse together so they were advised against it. the beyonce hate is pathetic.

It’s her business

"no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded."

If you are sitting in the band and you have an instrument in your hand, I think you would know if you are playing it or not. Lol…

CBella

Perhaps your "sources", were old because today on CNN.com it was confirmed that your BFF Beyonce was in lip-syncing! Do you think that Michelle doesn’t research or vet info before printing it?! If you could see clearly (probably not its dark inside the Queens hive) you would note that the military said that no one person was authorized to speak on whether or not it was a live performance!!!! I’m always in awe of you that worship at the throne of the Queen, hope she can save you on Judgement Day I worship no man/woman only The Lord….whispering SHEEP

To lady a…that’s a well known fact….so Kelly sang but she couldn’t??? Grasp on that!! Very proud of being a military wife and all who have and do serve..I don’t really care for bey one way or another but super bowl comes every year..when will we see another black president?

I said the same thing too. It’s still her voice regardless if she sung it live or not. Many well known stars have done this; nothing new here if it was lip synched. I think she did a good job. There are so many others that could not have even come close to singing the National Anthem for a crowd this size (live or lip synched).

KBebe

@WTF…I agree. It is still her voice. This is nothing new. Why are people so in awe or upset over this escapes me?

Here goes the haterade again! Snatch someone else down. “She ain’t all that cause she lip synced.” Let the haters continue and do their work.

Lisa Lasean Mahone via Facebook

Well regardless we all know she can sing for real so this isn’t news.

Daryl D. Smith via Facebook

She did sing live, she just sung along with her pre-recorded vocals so that her voice would be full in that type of environment. Considering the weather, crowd noise, open stage – she had to hear herself recorded to stay in pitch and in timing.

MsSapphire9800

Weather..Really…She was outside with a semi-sheer gown and no coat!!!

It’s her business

Lol. And Kelly sang just fine in the same weather.

fay_jay

Reading is fundamental. She did not sing. She was to sing along with a track and decided to fake it.

Shawnee

yes reading is fundamental…so do your own reading and see what the facts are.

So what if she Lip Synced don’t you people have better things to report in the news

KBebe

I agree.

Cheryl Stewart via Facebook

Why they lying on this lady like that…im ashamed to be in this black community… Ok so now they cant wait for her to perform at the super bowl….lawdy….i really should laugh at this foolishness,no matter what she does she can’t measure up to none of y’all huh!!! My gawd!!!

Did Kelly clarkson sing to a prerecorded track??? She did the damn thang!!!!!

honey

say that again,her performance was the best yet beyonce got the praise,even some fools compared bey’s performance to whitney’s..really??The problem is,some americans are the most hypocrites i’ve ever come across….if this was somebody else,they would eat her up.When chris brown lip synced at the VMA’s ppl criticised him,even celebrities….so how much more a great deal such as the president’s inaugration ceremony. It should have been raw and pure,if ppl will lipsync on pre-recorded songs anywhere,then hell we’ll all be amazing singers,anybody else can do such good job so that to me aint no talent PERIOD!!Americans should learn how to call spade a spade.To me pre recorded performance aint no performance at all….cos even the red leather suit up guy from american idol auditions could have done that.

honey

my 2cents!!!

It’s her business

"even some fools compared bey’s performance to whitney’s..really??"

Hahaha… Beyonce should be beyond these types of foolish games.

Jacqueline Stevenson via Facebook

Bey is not a vocalist…Whitney Houston put that song to rest!! Nuff said!

honey

Amen to that!!

F.O

Thank you! She did it cause she can’t sing ! Kelly was live Jennifer was live ! Please. I knew she sounded too good.

ladydiinpa

Whitney did not sing live

Star1

Whitney pre-recorded hers too – SHE WAS NOT SINGING LIVE- this is the truth, Google it, or go to CBS Morning News. they did a segment on it this A.M.

Kelly Clarkston SHOULd have lip synced. She yelled that song. She didn’t sing it!

KBebe

I know right?! KC was not impressive at all in that performance. It was the cold air drying up her throat.

Jackie

A real vocalist would have sang that song…but we know she is nowhere near a ‘Whitney ‘……stay in your lane bey?…shame on you to do that on this occasion .

Tonia

You do realize Whitney lip synced the national anthem for the Super Bowl.

Gina Baldwin via Facebook

Damn

LaLa

That is not true. You could tell she had a lol bit of trouble while singing the song. Where’s the proof of this "last minute decision" claim? I’m not a stan, I just don’t believe everything I read.

candyreddxxx

I think Kristin Dubois is the proof …. someone who was there Idk

It’s her business

The Semper Fi band members said she didn’t sing and they didn’t play. They pretend to play while the track was being played. That made them mad and that’s why they exposed her. The Marines have a lot of pride. Faking the funk is not their style.

Whitney didn’t sing her’s when she sang it at the game, it is a common practice.

Rejoice

This story is not surprising. If I remember correctly, it was reported at the last inauguration that the group (featuring Yo Yo Ma) played to prerecorded music as well. I think it had to do with the sound in that arena.

I’m assuming that was still her singing on the recording. It doesn’t really matter to me. Not everyone can sing live. She stayed in her vocal lane (to use Kevin Hart’s words). She did a good job.

It was cold as sh*t out there. Trust me. Singing in the elements like that puts a strain on your vocal chords. Alicia and Jennifer sung inside in the warmth. Kelly may not have a huge performance coming up in 2 wks where all the world will be watching.

SMH

SMH…so why she pull that earpiece out her ear,like she was really singing live . she did some good acting. Im still mad she wore that pageant dress to the inauguration. I see crazy Kenya resemblence.think its the hair.

Erika Miller Snow via Facebook

Kelly clarkson did not yell, she sung the hell out of that song!!!! Give her props!!!!

jbm

She sang along with the track, she didn’t lip synch. She started to feel her runs too much and it didn’t match up to what she recorded. It’s not uncommon. Whitney did the same thing. They do that just in case there are tech difficulties, the show must go on. At the end of the day, I’d rather see her lip synch than to hear some of these other chicks out here with the bullshit.

A.N.D.

Well Ricky Minor who was Whitney Houston’s music director at the time she sang her perfect rendition of The National Anthem said that she ALSO used a Pre-Recorded track because due to sound quality and noise volume its hard to sing live and stay on pitch in stadiums and places where more than 50 thousand people gather. Whitney and Beyonce sang to their own vocal tracks.Whitney’s is the best ever while Beyonce did a good job also.

N4LF

so what !! I mean really …

N4LF

leave her the ivy alone .. That’s to much like right .

Linda

I just always thought she was a cheap vegas act. Nothing special

Renee

I don’t blame her. Although she’s a professional, she just did not want to take a chance with the live band.

2bme

It’s standard practice to sing over a recorded track..so therefore she didn’t "technically" lip sync

versatile

She didn’t lipsync sh*t! The anthem is a word curse song. Even the best flub that simple sh*t. She just made sure she got past that certain verse, then snatched that crap out of ears and made a great ending. Too bad Nippy put her stamp on that sh*t. Bey had to end on a Nippy sample note. She was great non the less.

Get into it…

I mean, really?! This is news…smh @ this post. Regardless, it was her voice.

Camille Williams via Facebook

Not only lip sync but auto tuned .

NEW2daA

Someone actually posted this in the comment section of your blog yesterday….while it is common practice, and even the late, great, Whitney lip synced…Whitney didn’t snatch out the damn earpiece going above and beyond to fool us. I said before and will say it again, I like Beyonce, hell, I have been to two of her concerts, I was even present in O-town when she busted her ass and made my bff delete the video of her phone, but dammit man, I don’t like to play the fool for anyone….not even Queen B and all her Beyantics. We know you are only human girl, stop with the God like behavior.

Thanks for the frank, honest comment! It’s not about Whitney either because there is no comparison, Whitney could sing standing on her head in the middle of the White House lawn and sound better than Beyonce on her best day. The removal of the ear piece was drama for her sheep!! She lip-synced because the studio has that magical sound board, engineers and auto tune. Remember when her old vocal coach said she was straining her voice?? I love plenty of her songs but she can sing not SANG, BLOW, or even touch the true vocalists.

This aint big news and I’m not surprised. It’s still her voice. People do it all the time.

Justin J Spearman via Facebook

no and its not really newsworthy.

lockstress

O’er the laaaand of the free and the home of the who gives a shyt! Barrack is still president, gun violence is still alive and well, they wanna see us all in phucking shackles, she still rich and rocking her lace fronts, Republicans still don’t wanna pay their taxes, Ni**as still posting rathcett pics on facebook!

All music is recorded as a precaution and Kelly Clarkson sang live (fyi). Yoyo Ma (chelist)played recorded and the pre-recorded sound…still sounded ok! Whitney is gone and NO ONE will ever top her performances (pre-crack)

it’s so common, its the presidential inauguration,there needs to be some respect there,Obama is making history here it should a all out affair

Linda

this one occasion should’ve been something less signifcaint then the presidential inauguration, thats why there making a big deal out of it.im thinking that if this was planed that who ever was in charge should’ve thought about what might of happened which it did and went with someone else if she just wasnt up to it

Sean Williams, Aretha was asked to perform the National Anthem in 2009, but she said she could not perform the Anthem in the cold. She performed God Bless America or America the Beautiful instead. She said her vocals would not last in that weather to reach those notes. Kelly sang well, but her song was easier. I think if she had to sing the Anthem in that weather, she would have probably lip-synced also. If Aretha couldn’t do it, who could.

watchwaytoomuchtv

You just don’t lip sync at Pres. B. Obama 2nd history making anguration on Martin L.Kings BD. You just don’t do it. They shoulda ask Jenny Hudson to handle this and let lady B. Sing indoors. Just saying!!

I think after the late 70’s they started pre recording the anthem for important events. Aretha and Whitney both pre recorded their historic moments singing the anthem. Although, Whitney really set the bar and change the game with her version.

Dana T.

prettyReddgal

she lip synched cuz she sucks! yes it does matter!! live singing is what proves ur chops!! she couldnt do it!! shoulda let kelly clarkson do it! that white girl can sang!! lol

Really!!!

Beyonce lip synced over her OWN VOICE. Big deal. That’s a hard song to sing and maybe she thought she might mess up singing it live and did not want to disappoint the President and First Lady. I don’t see anything wrong with it.

tugglebunny

Whitney was pre rocorded too..so what!

Ms. Divine

I’m sick of A Keys hollering and screaming about a girl on fire, and people were asking where Al Green was to sing his own damn song. J Hud was screaming too. If you’ve never sung in elements you have no idea how it affects your voice. Go back and listen to Kelly at the beginning of My Country Tis of Thee – sounded horrible. I don’t blame Bey, and I’d do it again at the Superbowl too!

ladydiinpa

agree Ms Divine,,,yeah why wasn’t Al there, and I agree Jennifer wasn’t sounding so good to me either..
I don’t care if she lip sync’s at superbowl either…

Haterville

The comments on this site are hilarious, but seriously it seems like the "bash every black woman and man" site to me. So what, Beyonce lip synched! The girl did an amazing job and she also partook in a historic event, so whatever. Beyonce is one of the last real mainstream singers that’s a female that we have left so why hate? Do you losers honestly think Rihanna, Lady Gaga, or Keri Hilson could have sung that successfully? LOL.

Linda

no but Mary J. Blige, Fantasia,India Arie, Mariah Carey, Oleta Adams, could have and sure their are more

I don’t think they could have, but Jennifer Hudson sang the hell out of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Everyone had tears in their eyes. I couldn’t stop crying. That girl can reach notes that give you chills. I think Beyonce did well, but Jennifer could have killed it.

Educated Black Woman

Do you all think Beyonce’ really cares what all the broke haters think? While y’all broke behinds sitting at home watching her performing at the 1st Black Prez Inauguration, and will also be sitting y’all broke behinds at home watching her perform at the Super Bowl in apx. 2 weeks, she is laughing all the way to the bank and to her luxurious vacays while y’all are broke, going to a 9 – 5 everyday wishing you could walk in her shoes. Why not uplift a classy, talented sister (rather than always trying to bring her down)? Why hate? Let ya haters be ya motivators! ijs

ladydiinpa

wow…I totally agree…

Jeremy Gordon

HOW IS THIS NEWS? Real journalism is dead! Also reading these comments, it’s no wonder why this country’s Education is ranked 35th in the world.

CBella

This is a BLOG, Atlien never said this was a journalistic outlet….by the way CNN, Faux News, MSNBC aren’t considered real journalism with their right wing BS agendas either! Get that dictionary out an look up blog, blogging and then look up ignorance.

LadyDe Brnevereit via Facebook

who cares..she still the bizness…

ladydiinpa

who cares…99.99 people talking negative could not sing even on a track..why take something that was so awsome into this..
girl can sing, puts on good shows, u get ur money’s worth…I dont care if she lip sync’s at superbowel, Whitney did…look it up…Jay & Bee r royalty,,,check their net worth..

sheena215

im shocked because sound came from the mic like she was singing. This has happened before tho yo yo ma pre recorded her version of it and did the same. I heard Whitney Houston did too. Its cold out there and the wind blows so I guess thats expected. *shrugs shoulders*

sheena215

its not like we dont know she can sing tho.

Vay

I’m not sure that I care about this…lets see…nope I dont! It’s not like we dont know that this woman can sing so what is the big deal? I think her performance was just fine especially since she isnt the reason why I was watching anyway. It’s so easy for us to lose focus on what is REALLY going on…

Milli

It almost sounds from these comments some people are embarrassed for her. I don’t get what the story is about. who cares. I’m not even gonna click to hear it…that’s how much I don’t care…but why was Jennifer Hudson singing at that thing : ) the video was blocked or pulled yesterday?

Free Kroy

That bitch really acted like she was singing that!!!

JadePrincess

She chose to go with the pre-recorded version – who knows why; maybe she was nervous as hell at having to sing the US Anthem for the President’s Inauguration and didn’t want to take a chance of messing up – but we all know the girl can sing live. Google her live, YouTube her live and you can find any number of videos as proof. While she didn’t lip-sync, only sang along with pre-recorded vocals, many artists do and will continue to do so. Whitney’s version of the Star Spangled Banner was DOPE. And pre-recorded. Didn’t stop it from being the all time greatest rendition of the anthem. Why is it that Beyonce is constantly being pulled apart for everything she does? Come on y’all.

Look here, rather than bitch at other haters I’m going point a finger at myself and admit it. I hate on her too, and here’s why: I won’t buy her music or go to her concerts, because deep down I really think she’s too beautiful, too talented, too rich, too successful, with a healthy baby and an amazing body, and a husband who may not be fine, but will ensure their family stays wealthy for generations. I hate her because her life seems perfect, and NOBODY is supposed to have that much going for them all at once.

Once I’m honest with myself, I can either look at my own life and be happy with my own achievements – my marriage, my job, the fact that i’m a mom and in great shape too cuz I WORKED AT IT, or I can be mad at Beyonce for the success she’s worked very hard to attain, when I know damn well I’m not really prepared to put in the work she has. I also know that her life can’t really be THAT perfect – she’s just got a whole machine behind her to make it seem that way. If she puts her draws on one leg at a time, she’s gotta have bad days, weeks or months too.

Bottom line, there is nothing stopping me or anybody else from being as great as Beyonce is but ourselves. While we’re wasting time on the blogs staring at her pictures and criticizing her from a place of envy, that girl is on her way to the next business opportunity.

There, I feel better.

Jackie

Liked what you said….I just think for this occasion she should have sang…super bowl is every year….when are we going to see another black president? If she could ‘nt sing the anthem should have done something else.

Kimi-Choco

I agree she should have sang live.. we’re not gonna see something like this again- having a black president for a long long time. Her being super nervous is a good explanation though..maybe she was scared to screw up. Lord knows if she’d sang and didn’t hit the notes, the critics would eat her alive for the rest of the year.

ali

Beyonce is still Queen B. She doesn’t have to answer to know one. She is the #1 female entertainer in the music business. Her and J is the #1 money maker in the business. It kills me how women are constantly trying to find a flaw in Beyonce.She beautiful and rich. I did hear that President Obama ask you to sing, for him. the site is always hating on a sistas. At least Beyonce don’t look like a pugh dog. Girl you need to ask Nene were she got her nose fixed. Fix your nose and pull that weave down, it’s about to fall off your head. Ha Ha Ha.

mary

BEYONCE SHOULD HAVE SUNG THE SONG LIVE, NOT ONLY COULD SHE NOT HEAR HERSELF, WHEN SHE OPENED HER MOUTH I COULD NOT HEAR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS WAITING ON HER TRACK, THEN SHE PICKED UP AND THEN SHE TOOK THE EAR PIECE OUT…BEYONCE, CHOSE TO TAKE HER COAT OFF AND FLAUNT HER DRESS AND FIGURE IN THAT COLD ASS WEATHER, BUT COULDN’T FLAUNT THOSE VOCALS..FUCK BEYONCE!

mary

TO ME PERSONALLY THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT FANTASIA SHE WOULD HAVE HAD EVERYONE IN TEARS…I GUESS FAN IS NOT LIGHT SKIN ENOUGH OR HAVE A HAIR WEAVE ROLLING DOWN HER BACK WITH A RAPPER HUSBAND…ROLLEYES..WHATEVER!